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Takamoto and colleagues: an optical lattice clock

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Precision measurement and instruments · EMPIRICAL

Reference score190,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Demonstrated strontium atoms trapped near a magic wavelength with narrow clock spectroscopy.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact four-author 2005 Nature paper and its reported strontium apparatus and measurements. It does not absorb later optical-clock accuracy records, other atomic species or all lattice-clock engineering.

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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact four-author 2005 Nature paper and its reported strontium apparatus and measurements. It does not absorb later optical-clock accuracy records, other atomic species or all lattice-clock engineering.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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